The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jul 1987 English Publisher:University of Chicago PressJournal:Journal of Labor Economics, volume 5, pages 386-390 (issn: 0734-306X, eissn: 1537-5307,

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Authors: Ben-Horim, Moshe; Zuckerman, Dror;

doi: 10.1086/298153

The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration

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This paper shows that unemployment insurance benefits could decrease the expected duration of unemployment induced by search. An unemployed person who has to finance search from limited resources may use the benefits to intensify search effort and lower the expected duration of unemployment.

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